On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:37 pm, James Stroud wrote: > > 1) What are the benefits of using a member variable without the 'self' > > qualifier? (I think this is because you can use _x without an > > instance of A().) > > No such thing as a benefit here. self.a inside a method is the same as a > outside (see code below for what I mean).
By the way, here is some unintuitive behavior to think about: >>> class bob: ... a = 2 ... def get_a(self): ... return self.a ... def set_a(self,an_a): ... self.a = an_a ... >>> bob1 = bob() >>> bob1.a 2 >>> bob1.set_a(4) >>> bob1.a 4 >>> bob.a = 14 >>> bob1.a 4 >>> bob2 = bob() >>> bob2.a 14 >>> bob.a = 99 >>> bob2.a 99 >>> bob1.a 4 James -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
